Abstract: Apparatus for removing an excess amount of a liquid coating material from portions of a moving web following coating of the moving web with the liquid coating material along a coating path. A vacuum head having a suction slot is defined by upstream and downstream walls and adapted to be movably positioned in an inoperative position away from the coating path and in an operative position contacting at least a portion of the liquid coating material on the moving web along the coating path, the downstream wall positively displacing a portion of the liquid coating material when the vacuum head is positioned in the operative position. A suction mechanism is operatively coupled to the vacuum head for establishing a vacuum manifold within the suction slot and communicating with a disposal system. A supply of liquid is operatively coupled to the vacuum head for supplying liquid to the suction slot.

Abstract: A digital still store system (10) receives composite digital 4:2:2 D1 video signal inputs in parallel at (12) or serially at (14). The signals are supplied in component form selectively to one of framestores (18) and (20). The component signals are supplied from the framestores (18) and (20) to hard disks (22) through a buffer store (24) and disk input/output (I/O) circuits (26). Each of the hard disks (22) stores still video images as either 525 or 625 line digital frames for either NTSC or PAL composite signal inputs and outputs. Y and C fields of component video signal information are supplied from the hard disks (22) through the buffer store (24) and one of the frame stores 18 and 20 to a compositor (28) for output as digital 4:2:2 video signals. The buffer store (24) obtains the video signal fields for either full size images or 1/4 size images, when an array for browsing and selection is desired.

Abstract: A real-time disk system (10) stores and plays back D1 digital 10-bit 4:2:2 component video and audio signals from magnetic storage disks (12). The system (10) has a main channel subsystem (14) with an associated smooth motion option (16) and a second or key channel option subsystem (18) with an associated smooth motion option (20). Serial and parallel D1 digital video inputs (30) and (32) and outputs (34) and (36) are connected to each of the channels (14) and (18) and to control subsystem (22). In the main channel (14), the serial and parallel D1 input (30) is connected through an input board (60) to a video processing board (62). The video board (62) is connected by a bidirectional, 11.times.2 wide bus (64) to disk arrays (66) and (68). Digital video signal information is stored and retrieved in parallel to and from the disk arrays (66) and (68) without requiring any serial to parallel or parallel to serial conversion.